LAURA LEE SLETTO PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HER HOME NEAR CHAMPION, ALBERTA ON FEBRUARY 9, 1990 AT THE TENDER AGE OF 9 YEARS.
LAURA WAS BORN AT LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA MAY 18, 1980. SHE WAS ATTENDING GRADE FOUR AT CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SHE ALSO ATTENDED BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL WHERE HER MOTHER TAUGHT HER CLASS. MOST RECENTLY SHE JOINED THE CHAMPION GIRL GUIDES OF CANADA WHICH SHE WAS VERY EXCITED ABOUT.
SHE ENJOYED READING STORIES, ESPECIALLY, GONE WITH THE WIND, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES AND THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE SERIES. HER FAVOURITE POEM WAS “LADY OF SHALOTT’.
BELOVED DAUGHTER OF BOB AND MARION SLETTO, SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER SISTER JILL AND BROTHER MATTHEW ALL OF CHAMPION, HER GRANDMOTHER WALTRAUT DURELL OF MYRNAM, ALBERTA, GRANDFATHER CLAYTON SLETTO OF CHAMPION, HER GREAT GRANDMOTHER MRS. ALICE GILCHRIST, AND NUMEROUS AUNTS, UNCLES AND COUSINS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER GRANDMOTHER ELIZABETH SLETTO IN 1981 AND HER GRANDFATHER HERBERT BOLL IN 1989.
FUNERAL SERVICES THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1990 AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH, VULCAN WITH PASTOR DENNIS PAAP OFFICIATING. INTERMENT TO FOLLOW IN THE CHAMPION CEMETERY.
PALLBEARERS WERE; RICK BOLL, DAVE BOLL, DAVE SLETTO AND STAN KRANZLER.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, PLEASE DIRECT MEMORIAL TRIBUTES TO EITHER THE S.T.A.R.S #164,1312-53 AVE. N.E., CALGARY T2M 4L7 OR THE CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAYGROUND FUND.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.